successively

Example Sentences

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Most cases went 5 to 4 with majorities shifting successively on each side.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

That report, arriving about three weeks later than usual, will be refined in two successively more accurate estimates in the months that follow, in accordance with the BEA’s usual practice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

That success made Real the first team from any nation to lift the trophy three times successively in the Champions League era.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

Pumpkins have come a long way since then, as Indigenous American communities carefully adapted the wild pumpkin into successively bigger and better-tasting varieties.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas